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April 9th, 2011 | EarthBound, Interviews, Uncommon Knowledge, Videos
Recently, Roo (the cool dude who made that EarthBound documentary and currently owns an EarthBound Zero prototype) met up with Reid, the co-founder of Starmen.Net and the guy behind Fangamer to talk about EarthBound, the EarthBound community, and all sorts of stuff. Some of the topics include:
- Nintendo Power’s coverage of EarthBound and buying EarthBound on release day
- How Starmen.Net came about
- The many community campaigns
- Nintendo and the community
- Why EarthBound resonates with fans so much, especially over time
- Shigesato Itoi and the EarthBound community
- The MOTHER 3 fan translation’s history and untold stories
- And a bunch more stuff
Check out the video if you get some time, there’s a lot of stuff in there you probably never knew about!
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10 Comments to The EarthBound Fandom’s History
 | blackpanther1026 said on Apr. 9, 2011 |
I love finding out random Starmen.net stuff. Definitely didn’t know about the Bill Trinen thing (or supposedly Bill Trinen)
 | TGP said on Apr. 9, 2011 |
This is hilarious, just because I watched Roo’s documentary last night and then I look here and see his face on the front page of the site. Whaaaat.
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| MagusDuality said on Apr. 9, 2011 |
He talked quite a bit on your work, Mato! Glad he brought that up. Didn’t realize the intensity of the whole M3 romhack shenanigans.
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| TBird said on Apr. 10, 2011 |
I didn’t know Roo was one of the prototype owners! That’s one hell of a collectible. I like his 16-bit gems videos so I’ll have to check the prototype vids out. This interview was really cool. I am one of those people who was on Starmen.net alot until the translation came and went. Now I mostly just check out this site for EarthBound trivia and such.
 | SoreThumb said on Apr. 11, 2011 |
You guys kidding? I love Reid’s beard. 😀
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| TeamMountainGaming said on Apr. 14, 2011 |
Congrats Roo!!!
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| DJ 2Sang said on Aug. 26, 2011 |
Wow, never knew you guys started so early. I thought Starmen.net was made after Smash Bros. came out.
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| Ness1985 said on Apr. 18, 2012 |
This is so brilliant, I feel warm inside 🙂
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| Jowee is a Raposa, not a fox said on Jan. 3, 2013 |
i can say, despite liking eb, Earthbound’s fandom is a advert, WHY CANT IT BE LIKE THE DRAWN TO LIFE FANDOM, NOT EVEN THINKING OF ADVERTISING?
Recent Comments
- virtualboy2558: Wouldn’t doubt it… over 4 months since the last article, no one can get into the forums still, and Mato or anyone else...
- LucianoTheWindowsFan: Last Post ever
- Cattlesnakes: that was awesome!I really enjoyed reading this. Itoi has the best scence of humo
- Mook: I really hope that there’s an update for christmas
- DJ: Who is this man? I’d like to shake his hand.
That beard 😮